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Some people point to 'Mogwai Young Team', others back to Slint. However, I believe (and have stated previously) that the true father of the post rock genre is EDGAR ALLEN POE. Check out his description of Usher (not that Usher) playing frantically on his guitar:

“I listened, as if in a dream, to the wild improvisations of his speaking guitar.”

“His long improvised dirges will ring for ever in my ears.”

“It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of the performances. But the fervid facility of his impromptus could not be so accounted for.”

There is no more post-rock. Post rock is the bored rich whiteboy music of choice. This is now the default setting for middle-class band guys. Collect a bunch together and like a million monkeys hammering at a million typewriters they'll drone out an eternity of po-faced, piss-weak EITS pastiches.

A delay pedal is not depth. A delay pedal is not profundity. A delay pedal is not atmosphere.

"The musical foundation for post-rock crystallized in 1991, with the release of two very different landmarks: Talk Talk's Laughing Stock and Slint's Spiderland. Laughing Stock was the culmination of Talk Talk's move away from synth-pop toward a moody, delicate fusion of ambient, jazz, and minimalist chamber music; Spiderland, meanwhile, was full of deliberate, bass-driven grooves, mumbled poetry, oblique structures, and extreme volume shifts. While those two albums would influence many future post-rock bands, the term itself didn't appear until critic Simon Reynolds coined it as a way to describe the Talk Talk-inspired ambient experiments of Bark Psychosis."